Saturday, 2. November 2002

The future of public space travel
Is it just a playground


AN UNABASHED SPACE CASE, Bass had prepped for a seat aboard that 12-day Soyuz taxi mission for months. He learned Russian. He got an A-OK flight physical. He received high-tech tutoring by top-notch cosmonauts and astronauts not to touch certain buttons. However, Bass was unable to pay the “going rate” to become the third ever space tourist, running out of the time needed to pull together the hefty $20 million fee.

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